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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)
In this thesis I look at how the revitalization of the republican intellectual tradition since the late 1960´s, and its narrative of the free, political and civil life in the well-ordered republic, enter into American ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
The thesis looks at the strategies American presidents have used to communicate with the public in relation to the available media channels. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, and Barack Obama are used as examples of ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
From the post-9/11 period up till today we have seen a number of films with a transnational theme and content emerging from Hollywood’s major studios. The growing number of films, containing traces of transnationality and ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter (1955) has rarely been considered a film noir. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether the film has any noirish qualities. The Night of the Hunter lacks most noir ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2008)
The debated “new environmentalism” seeks to incorporate social and cultural dimensions in a movement criticized for its narrow scientific and aesthetic focus. A fundamental presupposition for this approach is that environmental ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)
Although Jim Jarmusch is one of the most important and critically acclaimed American filmmakers of the past decades, his work has largely been ignored by scholars. Consequently, my analysis of Stranger than Paradise (1984), ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)
This thesis aims to show the significance the power to define may have. It analyzes the policy process and policy outcomes regarding the status, treatment and form of trial given to the “enemy combatants” during the George ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)
This thesis concentrates on a specific aspect of the Euro-American relationship, namely American responses to European regionalism. Furthermore, the intent here is to perform a historical and theoretical analysis of two ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2015)
The Financial Crisis of 2008 and the ensuing recession created much ambivalence about free market economics as a viable way to achieve sustainable economic growth in the United States. Despite a robust recovery the downward ...
(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)
One of the leading scholars on Norwegian American ethnic identity, Odd S. Lovoll, has argued that ski jumping was an "ethnic forte" for Norwegian immigrants in the U.S. This thesis tests and interprets Lovoll's statement ...